RSSApple to Open iPhone to Developers via Web
By Nate Mook | Published June 11, 2007, 2:21 PM
WWDC 2007 - Responding to feedback from developers, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Monday that the company would open up the iPhone platform for third party application. The initial concern with such a capability was security, but Jobs says Apple came up with "a very sweet solution."
Because the iPhone (due at 6pm on June 29) includes Safari's full WebKit engine, Apple says developers will be able to write Web 2.0/AJAX applications for the device. The applications can integrate with iPhone services, which means they can make calls, send e-mail and integrate with Google Maps. Because they share Safari's security features, the applications are safe and require no separate SDK. "With all the Web services built in, you can build fantastic applications for iPhone," remarked Apple vice president Scott Forstall.
The most useless and insecure smartphone so far.
Lets see. If you dont have an internet connection you cant use this "cool and wonderful" web 2.0 apps! So, if you want to use your phone for whatever reason, you need to PAY and PAY and PAY a ton of MB GPRS or EDGE trafic. Thanks, but no thanks. I prefer a Treo with NATURAL and OFFLINE applications.
INSECURE. The most insecure phone ever made!!!! Its not a joke, ith the truth. And why its insecure? Beacouse if you want to use your agenda, or your sensitive data, you need to send them to a webserver (out from phone to the wild internet) who will process your important datas and after that send back to your phone. What that means? Lets say, you are a businessman and have an important document to edit. To edit your important document you will be FORCED to send your document to a "wonderful" web 2.0 word editor. Now, your document isnt anymore SECURE. Its PUBLIC! Stivy is sayng that will be encripted. I dont think this encriptions really serve for something. In this days for a supercomputer is taking some seconds or less to broke an encripted document. So, your private and secret datas are made PUBLIC DOMAIN!!!
In conclusion: iPhone IS THE MOST USELESS AND INSECURE PHONE EVER MADEIT!!!
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|Still useless to me. Full programmability is what makes smart phones smart phones.
I can use my Treo to tune my guitar(not just playing the notes, but actually using the mic to tell me how in tune it is) - can you do that with an iphone using AJAX?
Real programability means limits the possiblities at the hardware level, not the software level.
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|Treo? BWAHAHAHAH
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|Web apps, eh? Makes sense. Web apps are a little less likely to screw up the entire phone network.
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|There has never been a single application for smart phones that has had even the slightest risk of screwing up an entire phone network. Apple is just overly paranoid.
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|And all the noobs were jumping to conclusions about no 3rd party apps. LATN!
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|yea the noobs were jumping to that conclusion... cause thats what apple had stated. These are only 3rd party web apps so they will not have full functionality of the device only the same functionality as the web browser... its not a full access situation.
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|there are no 3rd party "apps"....just cheesy AJAX applications. My phone has a web browser too....i'm sure people coudl write 320x240 web pages for it if they really wanted to.
Just means that you will HAVE to pay for an internet plan....and you probably cant use those apps when you're disconnected like on an airplane....or in a cinder-block public bathroom.
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